The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-04
General and miscellaneous.


The new line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St
Paul road via Manila to Sioux City and Yank-
ton, will be opened for business on Monday,
June g.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says that it is be-
lieved that when the millennium is due the last
parties to join in universal peace will be the
railroads.
Edward Treadweli and a party of surveyors
prospecting line along the river bank seek
ing entrance into Peoria for the Atchison,
Topeka q Santa Fe-
The Chicago & Northwestern, which proposes
to reach the Pacific coast with their tracks in
steel rails, the delivery covering some twenty
months. q
Calvin s. Brice. who is known as the great
railroad consolidator and who has become
wealthy through his manipulations of this char
acter, a school teacher in Lima, o., but
few years ago.
The Revere Beach Narrow-gauge road. Massa-
chusetts, is the only narrow gauge road in the
country which is really paying institution. Its
stock 10 now quoted at 1885, but few years ago
1t went begging at 10 cents on the dollar.
Large blocks of the stock of the Philadelphia
& Reading road have changed hands within che
have been realized through the advance in price.
Some Indianapolis parties have realized hand
some margins through deals they have made.
George Fred Williams has brought thirty-two
suits in Boston, against the Boston & Provi-
dsnce Railroad Company, as attorney for those
injured in the recent railroad disaster at Bussey
bridge The damages claimed in these cases
vary from $500 to $50 000 and the aggregate is
over $40O. 900.
1t will ba interesting to observe if the Cana
dian Pacific road is able to redeem its promise
to reduce the time between Liverpool and Hong
Kong by two days. between Liverpool and
Shanghai by five days, and between Liverpool
and Yokohama by twelve days, through the
Oriental steamship line they propose to put on
in connection with the Canadian Pacific road.
The Canadian Pacific is succeeding very well
in keeping itself before the public eye. It's news
bulletins within the past week have included the
completion of the road to tide-water on the Pa
cific through traffic arrangements to Boston,
ocean at reduced rates. In few weeks one of
the three steamships the company has bought
for it's Vancouver line will be in service, and
several other like schemes said to be on the
tapis.
From returns received up to the end Of last
month it is found that the new track, main line,
laid in the United States from Jan. i to June l,
1887, period of five months, aggregates no less
than 351 miles, eighty eight lines, in thirty
three States and Territories. This is an addition
of 7S7 miles since last months report, and gives
a total which has never before been equaled at
this season of the year, with the exception OF
that year of extraordinary railway building,
1882, when the mileage constructed in the coun-
try reached the great total Of II, 568 miles.
A st. Louis paper states that the Mobile &
Ohio have drawnthe color line in the excursion
rates to the meeting of the Knights of Labor in
Mobile, Aug. g. The tickets refuse the privi-
ege to q particular class, shutting out tho great
crowds, The way this is done is by stamping
the ticket, "Colored." 80 that none but citizens
OF the African race will be able to avail them
selves of the rate. This savors OF unlawful dis.
elimination against the white man, but it is
gued that none but colored men will want to go
to Mobile in August However, the ticket
scalper is grumblIng and will probably take the
case in hand.